The Journey So Far
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Greece – Again ! 🇬🇷
With just 10 days remaining before our flights home we had to cross the rest of Turkey ( not far ), zip up to the Bulgarian border briefly to get Green Card insurance ( as we’d soon be back in Europe ), and then meander down through the major sights of northern and...
Return to Turkey: The Southwest
Back from Cyprus, the weather was still holding nicely in the mid 20’s and with generally sunny days. This bode well for our planned travels west along Turkey‘s Mediterranean coast where we hoped to revisit a couple of our old haunts and explore some new places. The...
Cyprus 🇨🇾
Cyprus represented a significant change up from our usual travel routine. Typically heavy on sightseeing, or activities, with significant driving in between, we anticipated doing almost none of the above in Cyprus. While the country does have its share of worthy...
Return to Turkey : The East
Getting to Georgia had provided a couple of nice opportunities for us - first, the chance to explore a former Soviet republic, rapidly modernising ( and now even flirting with admission to the EU ). The political aspect of life there was definitely intriguing....
Georgia 🇬🇪
For much of the 20th century Georgia was part of the Soviet Union, but like all its other former component parts, Georgia broke free ( or should I say, “ free again” - it had a short lived period of independence after the Ottomans and before the Soviets ). Since 1991...
Turkey: Week 2
Leaving Tuz Golu ( salt lake ) last week, the planned route took us further east - first stop, one of the crown jewels in anyone’s Turkey itinerary - magical Cappadocia, centred on the town of Goreme. Downtown Goreme. The surreal landscape of Goreme and surrounding...
